​Into the Weeds

by HPR Staff | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Best Bets | September 6th, 2017

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ND Museum of Art, 261 Centennial Dr, stop 7305, Grand Forks

Plants that grow where humans don’t want them. Weeds represent exuberance, vigor, abundance, project the power to take over the world. Pigweed and leafy spurge will be here long after human beings are gone. Lots of artists, worth seeing. 701-777-4195

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